Laurence Reeves wrote:
> Robert Newson wrote:
>
>> She is nicer than me and you.
>>
>> is wrong, it should be:
>>
>> She is nicer than you and I.
>> or
>> She is nicer than I and you.
>>
>>
>>
> 'Fraid not. Replace "nicer" with "heavier" and it becomes obvious that
> in the above you almost certainly should have said "or" not "and", and
> the verb is then "is". I'm trying quite hard to think what it might
> mean, should one person be nicer than a pair of other people?
>
> P.S. I've just found out that I've probably "got Asperger's", which is
> nice, because:
>
> a) I can say the first comment above.
> b) I can use the Oxford comma (even though I went to the other one), and
> can get away with it.
> b) I can have the last word.
> c) I can stop putting the toilet seat down.
> d) I can have two B's (which I happen to prefer with the apostrophe (on
> subject! even if not on list), even though current usage dictates(sic)
> otherwise) and not get so worried about worrying about it (or nested
> parentheses, or dissimilar capitalisation, or these multiple or's, which
> might have worked as "ORs", but would've been really uncomfortable as
> "ors", in the same way that the "B's" couldn't have been "bs", but could
> have been "b's" or "Bs" (or "bees"?)) anymore (where, by the time you
> got to that "anymore", I willing to bet that that word threw you, as
> you'd entirely lost the thread of the sentence by then) (and I used
> that "that that" without qualms) (and now I'm getting silly) (now?).
> (Try saying all that without taking a breath).
.. I like the 'little professor' analogy:
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html
It is funny how late in life one can discover 'problems'.
Ben (my son for those not in the know) was diagnosed Dyslexic a few
years ago.
Sarah (my wife) was diagnosed as Dyslexic at age 9 in school, when she
had only just started catching up with reading/writing. She ended up
with two degrees! .... so she got the blame at that stage.
A QL man (forget his name, but he is high up in the British Dyslexia
Assocn) gave me a list of 10 things to measure against Ben - five or
more matches signals Dyslexia. I looked at them and quickly forgot Ben!
I fitted 9 out of 10 very closely. The most revealing was 'Finds
learning by rote difficult (languages etc) but is good at subjects that
involve analysis and lateral thinking (science etc) but can be good at
art and photography. This fitted my school days so exactly that I got a
'hairs of the back on neck' moment - and again now.
Poor Ben did not stand a chance (8-)#
... but Dyslexia was not known until well after I left school!
It just shows that one just gets on with life and never mind what is
'wrong' with oneself.
>
> PPS. Tony still hasn't told me whether he'd like to have fewer or less
> computable numbers than points in a (mathematical) line.
I thought I did. fewer, or maybe I did not understand the question (more
likely) (8-)#
Tony
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